[Intro: Kool Keith]

Yeah

This is a national message

N.A.S.A. worldwide

One... Take the spotlight off me

(Take the spotlight of me)

[Verse 1: Kool Keith]

I remember when the Cubans was first on Broadway

With dark and yellow gold

I was 11 years old

The inspiration was spread out like a blanket, ask em'

My discovery was beyond the pick, the Lee suit, and the afro

Now from the flair jeans on 169th from College

Watching the dude lean on one-seven-o

With a Kangol 'cross America

I saw the hippies cross

By Herc on Technique needles syncopated time was on time

The same time as the Beatles

I was up there watching James Brown's pockets, stuffed with Jolly Ranchers

When the NFL had the Rams in Los Angeles

Charles Finley in Oakland

And my kindergarten moment was the beginning

Till the Caribbean people came to New York and sheepskin was bought

The wind breaker

[Hook: Tom Waits + (Kool Keith)]

The building never fall down

They are the teeth of the town (spacious thoughts)

They crush us up in they grind

The meat and bone of the mind

We gather here on the block (spacious thoughts)

They key broke off in the lock

I'll meet you down at the well

I'll meet you down at the well (spacious thoughts)

[Verse 2: Tom Waits]

My balloon drops down at midnight

Stranglin' the monkey with the hands of a clock

Good can't help but do a little evil

Evil can help but do a little good

Who's that singing in the kitchen by the stove?

All aboard for the night train

They say the moon, it smells just like a cherry bomb

Come on home, all is forgiven

Everything costs

Deliver us from evil

And carry your own cross

[Hook]

The building never fall down

They are the teeth of the town (spacious thoughts)

They crush us up in they grind

The meat and bone of the mind

We gather here on the block

They key broke off in the lock

I'll meet you down at the well

I'll meet you down at the well

[Verse 3: Kool Keith]

The time gathered with poppy seeds and grass

Growing nobody faster than Jesse Owens

With everything I'm seeing and knowing

London Heathrow

Walking through the airport with green Pro-Keds

Sixty-niners from the designers

Tom McCann above the hill

Next to my man, Lou Man

The cardigan sweaters

The still sell the New Eras now at Jew Man

[Verse 4: Tom Waits]

Ghetto Bhudda in the second set

Breaking out in a cold sweat

I'll meet you in the music

We meet in the music

Those we never met

Keep dancing like there's nobody watching

Everyone can win the toss

I may wander, but I am never lost

[Hook]

The building never fall down

They are the teeth of the town (spacious thoughts)

They crush us up in they grind

The meat and bone of the mind

We gather here on the block

They key froze off in the lock

I'll meet you down at the well

I'll meet you down at the well